Kritika, Volume 9, Number 4 (Fall 2008) Contents Special Issue: Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union From the Editors Passing through the Iron Curtain 703 Articles Catriona Kelly Defending Children’s Rights, “In Defense of Peace”: Children and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy 711 Greg Castillo East as True West: Redeeming Bourgeois Culture, from Socialist Realism to Ostalgie 747 David Crowley Paris or Moscow? Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s 769 Elaine Kelly Imagining Richard Wagner: The Janus Head of a Divided Nation 799 Paulina Bren Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall … Is the West the Fairest of Them All? Czechoslovak Normalization and Its (Dis)contents 831 Susan E. Reid Who Will Beat Whom? Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 855 Barbara Walker Moscow Human Rights Defenders Look West: Attitudes toward U.S. Journalists in the 1960s and 1970s 905 Reaction György Péteri The Occident Within—or the Drive for Exceptionalism and Modernity 929 Reviews Donald Ostrowski Sergei Alekseevich Bugoslavskii, Tekstologiia drevnei Rusi [The Textology of Old Rus´]. 2 vols., ed. Iurii A. Artamonov; Andrei Leonidovich Nikitin, Tekstologiia russkikh letopisei XI–nachala XIV vv. [A Textology of Rus´ Chronicles from the 11th to the Early 14th Centuries], 1; M. F. Kotliar, V. Iu. Franchuk, and A. G. Plakhonin, eds., Galitsko-Volynskaia letopis´: Tekst. Kommentarii. Issledovanie [The Galician–Volynian Chronicle: Text, Commentary, Research] 939 Vera Dubina N. E. Koposov, N. D. Potapova, and M. M. Krom, eds., Istoricheskie poniatiia i politicheskie idei v Rossii XVI–XX veka: Sbornik nauchnykh rabot [Historical Concepts and Political Ideas in Russia in the 16th–20th Centuries: A Collection of Scholarly Works]; Peter Тhiergen, ed., Russische Begriffsgeschichte der Neuzeit: Beiträge zu einem Forschungsdesiderat [Russian Conceptual History of the Modern Period: Contributions to a Research Desideratum] 949 Bradley D. Woodworth Max Engman, Pietarinsuomalaiset [Petersburg Finns]; Raimo Pullat, Lootuste linn: Peterburi ja eesti haritlaskonna kujunemine kuni 1917 [City of Hopes: Petersburg and the Formation of the Estonian Intelligentsia to 1917]; Izabella Shangina, Natal´ia Revunenkova, and Natal´ia Iukhneva, eds., Mnogonatsional´nyi Peterburg: Istoriia, religii, narody [Multinational Petersburg: History, Religions, Peoples] 963 Johannes Remy Ricarda Vulpius, Nationalisierung der Religion: Russifizierungspolitik und ukrainische Nationsbuildung, 1860–1920 [The Nationalization of Religion: Russification Policy and Ukrainian Nation-Building, 1860–1920] 977 Marc Elie Rudol´f Germanovich Pikhoia, Moskva, Kreml´, vlast´ [Moscow, the Kremlin, Power], 2 vols. 988 Letters Michael Melancon Reply to Lars Lih 997 Contributors to This Issue 999 Carolyn Pouncy Managing Editor Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>